Pandemic and seasonal influenza viruses among patients with acute respiratory illness in Kashmir (India)

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Koul, Parvaiz A ^a   Mir, Muneer A ^b   Bali, Nargis K ^a   Chawla Sarkar, Mamta ^c   Sarkar, Mehuli ^c   Kaushik, Samander ^b   Khan, U H ^a   Ahmad, Feroze ^a   Garten, Rebecca ^d   Lal, Renu B ^d   Broor, Shobha ^b  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

HA gene; Influenza like illness; Seasonal flu; Swine flu

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; OSELTAMIVIR; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CHILD; CHILL; CLADISTICS; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SECRETION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RIGOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SORE THROAT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054781194     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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